What's New in vRealize Automation Center 7.2.0

The vRealize Automation 7.2 release includes resolved issues and the following new capabilities.

Enhanced APIs for programmatically installing, configuring, and upgrading vRealize Automation
Enhanced upgrade functionality for system-wide upgrade automation
LDAP support for authentication and single sign-on
FIPS 140-2 Compliance:
- Consumer/administrator interface is now FIPS 140-2 compliant
- Managed using vRealize Automation appliance management console or command-line interface
- FIPS is disabled by default
Migration improvements:
- UI-driven vRealize Automation 6.2.x to 7.2 migration
- Migration option available in Deployment Wizard
- Enhanced support for importing vCloud Director workloads
Service entitlement enhancements:
- Checkbox to add all users to an entitlement
- Delete inactive entitlements
Expanded extensibility capabilities:
- Several new event broker topics for enhanced extensibility use cases
- Subscription granularity for individual components, catalog items, component actions, containers, or deployments
- Leverage extensibility with new container management functionality
- Scale-out/Scale-in custom XaaS services and applications that include XaaS objects
Networking Enhancements:
- IPAM framework support for NSX on-demand routed networks
- New network profiles to support additional IPAM use cases
- Configure load balancing policy for NSX on-demand load balancer in the blueprint (round-robin, IP-Hash, Leastconn)
- Configure service monitor URL for HTTP/HTTPS
Container Management:
- Integrated container management engine for deploying and managing Docker Container hosts and containers
- Build hybrid applications that include containers and traditional OS
- New Container administrator and architect roles
- Auto discovery of provisioned container hosts
Azure Endpoint for Hybrid Cloud provisioning and management:
- Seemlessly build, deliver, and manage Azure machines with vRealize Automation
- Support for Azure networking services
ServiceNow Integration:
- Automatically expose entitled vRealize Automation catalog items to ServiceNow portal by using the Plug-in that is available in VMware Solution Exchange